THIS WEEKENDDartmouth will head back out on the road for the final time
in the 2012-13 regular season with games this weekend at Clarkson and St.
Lawrence. The Big Green will play the Golden Knights Friday at Cheel Arena in
Potsdam before a short drive down the road to Canton, N.Y., and Appleton Arena
for a Saturday night match-up with the Saints.

LAST TIME OUT
The Green split last weekend's two-game homestand with
Cornell and Colgate. Dartmouth lost, 4-2, Friday night to the Big Red before
mounting a late third-period comeback for a 5-4 victory over the Raiders the
following evening.

WHERE WE RANK
Despite the win against Colgate, Dartmouth dropped two spots
in the USCHO Division I Poll to 19th this week. The drop notwithstanding, the
15th straight rankings release continues the program's longest consecutive run
in the poll as well as the most appearances in a single season.

THE LEAGUE IS CRAZY
RIGHT NOW
Just eight points separates the second-place team
(Rensselaer, 21) from the 11th-place team (Cornell, 13). Currently, Dartmouth (8-7-3) is tied with
Yale (9-8-1) for fifth as both have 19 points. Clarkson and Princeton are close
behind with 17 points, while Brown has 15. Only Quinnipiac is sure of its
postseason seeding, having already won the Cleary Cup as regular season
champion.

ROAD WOES
The final road trip of the season could not come soon enough
for the Big Green as the team is just 2-6-3 in road games this season with both
wins coming at Brown.

SCOUTING CLARKSON
Since falling to Dartmouth in the final weekend of January,
Clarkson is 3-2-1 with wins over Cornell, Union and Princeton. Last weekend saw
the Knights give top-ranked Quinnipiac their best shot only to come up on the
wrong end of a one-goal loss, 2-1. Overall the team is 8-15-7, but a 7-8-3 mark
in league play has it just two points back of the Big Green in the ECAC Hockey
standings with 17 points. Junior Allan McPherson leads the team with 23 points
(9g/14a), while Greg Lewis has seen a majority of time in net this season,
posting an 8-13-6 mark with a 2.85 goals-against average and a .903 save
percentage.

LAST TIME AGAINST THE
GOLDEN KNIGHTS
Dartmouth exploded for four goals in the third period while
firing 49 shots on goal in the 5-1 win between the two teams in Hanover on Jan.
26. Lewis stopped 44 shots in the game, including 35 through 40 minutes, but
was unable to stop the third-period surge that put the game away. Five
different players scored for the home team that Saturday night.

ALL-TIME VS. CLARKSON
Friday night will mark the 99th meeting all-time between the
two programs. Clarkson holds a 66-25-7
advantage in those match-ups for an impressive 70.9 winning percentage against
its ECAC Hockey rivals from the Upper Valley.

SCOUTING ST. LAWRENCE
With just one loss in its last 10 games (8-1-1), St.
Lawrence is getting hot at the right time. Fresh off a weekend sweep of
Princeton and No. 1 Quinnipiac, the Saints have gone from the bottom half of
the league standings to third in the last three weeks. The 2-1 win over the
Bobcats snapped a 21-game unbeaten streak and was the product of two goals from
junior Greg Carey. Playing alongside Kyle Flanagan, the duo has formed the most
potent offensive grouping in the nation this year as they have a combined 85
points. Carey's 23 goals are the best in the country this season, while he is also
tied for first in Division I with 45 points. Flanagan ranks third in the nation
in scoring with 40 points (13g/27a). Matt Weninger is the team's netminder and
boasts a solid 15-11-4 mark coming into the weekend.

LAST TIME AGAINST THE
SAINTS
Trailing 2-1 coming into the final period of the Jan. 25
contest at Thompson Arena, the Saints' top line exploded for three goals to
pick up the 4-2 victory. Flanagan, Carey and linemate Jeremy Wick each scored a
marker in a 7:04 stretch to put the game away and pick up the two league
points.

ALL-TIME VS. ST.
LAWRENCE
In 89 previous meetings between the Saints and Big Green,
St. Lawrence owns a 54-32-3 advantage (.624%).

DOUBLE UP
For the second time this season, two members of the Big
Green found the back of the net twice in the same game. Sophomores Jesse
Beamish and Eric Neiley both scored once in the first period and again in the
third to cap the comeback against the Raiders. Back on Nov. 2 against Yale,
Tyler Sikura, Eric Robinson and Matt Lindblad each scored twice in a 7-4 win.

SPLITSVILLE
Last weekend saw head coach Bob Gaudet use both Cab Morris and Charles
Grant between the pipes on consecutive days for the first time since the home
series with this weekend's opponents last month. Grant made his first start
since the first contest with the Saints after Morris got the nod in five
straight.

IVY LEAGUE UPDATE
Dartmouth had an opportunity to make a run at the Ivy League
crown, but the loss to Cornell have hurt those chances of catching Yale. The Elis are alone at the top with 12 points
and two games left, while Princeton is third with eight points and four Ivy
games remaining. Dartmouth has just next Friday's match-up with the Tigers left
on its Ancient Eight (six) slate and has 10 points to sit second currently.

NEW HIGHS
For Beamish, scoring twice set a new career high for the
sophomore from Ontario. Coming into the game with Colgate, Beamish had six
goals in 41 career games, including two in 16 this season.

LOST IN THE SHUFFLE
With Neiley and Beamish's goals getting all the attention,
it was senior Dustin Walsh quietly going about his business with a three-point
night against the Raiders. The Shannonville, Ontario, native scored once himself
and assisted on the first Beamish tally and the final marker from Neiley.

NICE TIMING
Neiley's seventh of the season came with just 5:19 left in
the third period with his team on the power play after he himself draw an
interference call just 45 seconds earlier. The Warminster, Pa., native
one-timed a shot from the top of the crease after a pretty passing play from
Walsh and fellow sophomore Andy Simpson.

THIS PLACE SEEMS
FAMILIAR
Saturday's game will mark the return of the Big Green to
Appleton Arena just a year removed from a historic achievement. Dartmouth swept
the Saints out of last year's first round, marking the first time in the
building's 60-year history that St. Lawrence failed to win a game in a playoff
series. Overall, the Green and White were 3-0 in Canton last season after
taking the regular season contest in November as well.

MAKE HIM SAY D'OH
In the last two games with the Saints, Simpson has found the
back of the net. His first career goal came in Dartmouth's 4-1 elimination of
SLU last year. He also scored with less than a second remaining in the first
period in the Jan. 25 meeting this season. A Feb. 10 goal at Harvard is
Simpson's only collegiate goal not to come at the expense of Weninger.

BIG TIME SAVES
The last two times a goalie has recorded 40+ saves in a game
against the Green have both been Clarkson netminders. Lewis stopped 44 in the
earlier meeting this winter, while before that you would have to look back to
Feb. 26, 2011 when then-Knights' goalie Paul Karpowich turned aside 43
Dartmouth shots in a 4-1 loss at Thompson Arena.

NEED THOSE POINTS
Home-ice in the first round or quarterfinals would greatly
help the Big Green's postseason chances as the team is 10-3 in Hanover this
season and just 2-6-3 on the road (0-0-1 neutral).

SECOND TO 10Tyler Sikura matched Eric Robinson with his team-leading
10th goal of the season against the Big Red. The sophomore center snapped home
a wrist shot over Andy Iles' glove right off the faceoff with 3:03 left in the
middle frame. He had 11 as a freshman in 2011-12.

ALL AT HOME
Keeping in line with the team's theme of home successes in
2012-13, freshman Nick Bligh scored his third goal of the year early in the
third against Cornell to pull his team to within one. All three of Bligh's
markers have come in front of the Thompson Arena crowd.

GETTING BACK AT IT
It is expected that the Green will see some offensive help
this weekend in the return of Eric Robinson and Matt Lindblad to the lineup.
Robinson was hurt in the first period against Cornell, while Lindblad has been
out since suffering an upper-body injury on Feb. 2 at RPI.

SO CLOSE TO THE TOP
A 6-for-6 showing on the penalty kill against Cornell and
Colgate pushed the Big Green's unit back to second in the country. Dartmouth
boasts a 90.1% success rate down a man this season (82-91). The only team ahead
of the Green's PK unit is Quinnipiac (91.0%).

BENCH BOSSES
A week after three of the league's top coaches of the past two decades were
all present at Thompson (Gaudet, Cornell's Schafer and Colgate's Don Vaughn),
this weekend will see the other end of the spectrum. Clarkson's Casey Jones is
in just his second season with the program, while SLU's Greg Carvel is in his
first campaign leading the Saints with the unenviable task of following
coaching legend Joe Marsh.

ON THE CUSP
With just two more points, Sikura will become the first
player since Scott Fleming in 2010-11 to reach the 30-point mark. Fleming had
31 points (13g/18a) as a senior and 39 (22g/17a) as a junior in 2009-10.

A +/- ODDITY
Dartmouth's +5 this season is tied for second in the league
with Colgate and Rensselaer. Quinnipiac is first in the league with an astonishing
+31 rating.

WHAT'S NEXT?
The Big Green will be back in Hanover next weekend to
wrap-up the regular season with crucial home games against Princeton and
Quinnipiac. The Saturday night game with the Bobcats will also mark Senior Day
ceremonies to honor the five members of the Class of 2013 as the program
recognizes Mike Keenan, Dustin Walsh, Alex Goodship, Mark Goggin and Jason
Bourgea.